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[In the beginning there was only an intensification of the minimal, endless labyrinths of bureaucracy. After myth comes a life of severity and scarcity, and a mixture of forms where forms challenge and transform one another.] [A danger hides in the form of the report: a too formal and tight a collar cuts off the blood flow, and makes thoughts uniform and empty. But the work of the institution has its reality and results, a bureaucratic mission whose accomplishment requires not asking about the mandator, but rather about the regularities and repetitions that practice puts into play. The work on the report continues. If it turns out to be three mandarins writing and if they at times envision themselves as living under the protection of the Emperor, behind high walls, then that is necessary. Other circumstances govern most of the time anyway. Never no lament.]